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Lynn,
Thank you so much. I am planning on a 3-year ladder since I am a year away from retirement. Lots of spreadsheet work to calculate the income replacement needed. This ladder will create a steady income stream. So thank you for all your help.
I moved back to high quality bond funds this year. Some of which you covered in the SA article. For now, I will stay with agency bonds to the bond ladder. I will pick active managers for corporate bonds.
Sven
NASA should benefit from the fast computing it provides, and it is likely to be in early phase of their research.
Before computers NASA relies on slide rule for complex calculation. How the science has advanced ?
Edit: i learned to use slide r…
@junkster, l looked at AGEYX and unsure its portfolio: high % of bond are not rated and sizable geographic %, 20%, is in Africa. So i paused.
https://morningstar.com/funds/xnas/ageyx/portfolio
Yardeni has been a perennial bull. He stayed quiet during the Libration day period.
Until the market broadens out to the other 493 stocks, what keeps the Mag 7 stocks going in 2026?
Edit:. The circular investment among the AI companies is worr…
Remember that US is carrying over $37 trillions of debt. We may past the point of no return with the interest paid to the debt is over $990 billions! The Big Bullshit Bill alone adds another several trillions to the debt. Gotta to love the $2,000…
Formaldehyde is widely as the adhesives in many products as stated in the article @Mark posted above. It is particularly bad in newly installed carpet. It continuously out-gas throughout the lifetime of the carpet.
'... hostility to Europe is a central theme of the Trump administration’s recently released National Security Strategy. The main driver of that hostility appears to be MAGA fury at the nations of Europe for being excessively protective of civil lib…
It is how the index is constructed that indirectly spills over the exposure to China and Russia. Companies these days do business globally. Microsoft, for example, is likely to have over sizable business outside of the states. Yet, it is in S&P…
Totally agree. Many of his supporters will regret they voted for this man.
Watch out for the shadow president: Russell Voight, one of the author of Project 2025
Many consumers wants gas guzzling SUVs and trucks without considering the gas cost. So he is appealing to the general mass. When i see increasing car loan delinquency, these folks are making poor choices. As consumers we have choices to make.
These are the signs of the onset of dementia. His niece, Mary Trump, describes his mental decline that follows his father, Fred Trump’s footsteps. The family medical history is well established.
Show us the MRI images and have the real doctors cr…
All retailers should joint in a class action lawsuit. The tariffs in fact is another tax impose on the US consumers.
Higher grocery prices have led this administration to reduce tariffs on certain food group. Who’s brilliant idea of these tariff…
Situation got so bad that Yieldstreet name was hurting the company, so it changed its name to Willow Wealth last week. Web searches for Yieldstreet lead to URLs for Willow Wealth.
But one thing didn't change - continued investors losses from priva…
Remember that Tesla have had several accidents of hitting pedestrians on sidewalk. Hopefully they have improved on it since then.
Waymo is widely used in major cities in southern California. Toyota is partnering with Waymo to expand their self dri…
@yogibb, i appreciate your contribution to this board as a whole. There is always something i learn and to expand my horizon of what others are watching. So, thank you.
@Crash, just don’t tell JD Vance about turkey who apparently dislikes turkey. Here what he said to the troop.
“Think about turkey,” he continued, before taking the speech in an unexpected direction.
“Who really likes ― be honest with yourselves …
We are traveling. So it presents many opportunity to explore other cuisines. Tonight our family will have Thai cuisine to celebrate Thanksgiving. Always enjoy savvy and spicy dishes. Last year, we had Indian cuisine and it was delicious.
Exactly ! I listened the podcast and read the transcript. Mr. Jacobson explains the complexity of the bond universe and how active management has greater probability to out-perform their respective indexes. It is refreshing to have an established…
The question is not IF but WHEN will China make their bold move. The trade war already started with this administration, and that is far from being finish.
@sma3,
Good idea of having more than one major brokerage just in case. Will explore Schwab after hearing great things here. Otherwise, we do banking outside the brokerages for convenience and other services as @catch22 mentioned.
European are excluded from the discussion. It is highly likely that many of Putin’s demand is in this deal. How to rebuild Ukraine post-war with so much damages?
Thank you.
crypto facilitates anonymous transactions that don’t leave a paper trail. Such transactions aren’t necessarily criminal, but many are."
Isn’t that another way saying money launching for concealing money source for illegal activities.
Thanks for sharing @Old_Joe. Someone said this AI-mania ended worse, much worse than that of the dot-com bubble.
Here is a piece I read from NPR (there are many others i come across). Short excerpt:
There is reason to be skeptical. A growing bo…
We have been Fidelity and Vanguard customers since the 90’s. Both firms were my 401(K) administrators with different jobs we had. Two years ago, we consolidated most of our Vanguard’s IRA accounts to Fidelity for ease of management. While Vanguard …
Thank you. This excerpt id from one of the comment below.
This is also why public trust in government is at an ATL. Trust is directly correlated with how honest and trustworthy the government is
ATL = all time low
DFA is way behind Blackrock and Vanguard on their ETF offering and $ flow. Unless DFA has some unique competitive advantages (performance and ER) over these dominant players, it is all uphill battle from here on.
For someone who wear a cross pendant, Leavitt is a hypocrite and defies all christian values. How can she not stand up for women and go ahead to spread more lies. Same goes for all GOP women who fail to speak up for women.
Today’s market is up due to the increased chance of rate cut in light of weak labor market. Quite honestly, cutting rate will not promote more hiring and less layoff. Companies are uncertain of future investment due to the tariffs.
Big Bitcoin ETFs are IBIT (AUM $75.4 billion)) and FBTC (AUM $18.9 billion).
Here is the largest holders of IBIT.
During the previous two years, 1,621 institutional investors and hedge funds held shares of iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF. The most he…
The TACO trade has reversed direction on selected food items from Brazil on coffee, coca, and beef, as the outcry on high food cost. Realistically, he only cares that his approval rating is falling to all time low.
Donald Trump on Thursday remove…
Thanks everyone - good information. Where can one hid from this AI-mania ? Money market fund?
Edits after NVIDIA reported great sale number yesterday after the market close, one would expect the market to rally. It petered out by noon, and S&a…
